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Tancredo tells Tea Partiers: Literacy test for voters would have stopped Obama

By Eric Zimmermann – 02/05/10 04:41 PM ET
The Tea Party convention kicked off today in Nasvhille, and former Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.) opened up the convention with some controversial remarks about the 2008 election.

“People who could not even spell the word 'vote' or say it in English put a committed socialist ideologue in the White House,” Tancredo said during a speech, according to the Cleveland Leader.

Tancredo also said Obama won because “we do not have a civics, literacy test before people can vote.”

This isn't the first time Tancredo has made controversial statements.

The Colorado Republican has long been a striden opponent of illegal immigration, and liberals have accused him of racial insensitivity. He launched a presidential bid in 2008 based on an anti-illegal immigration platform.

While explaining his opposition to Sonia Sotomayor's nomination, he called the group La Raza “a Latino KKK without the hoods or the nooses.”

Actually if a literacy test or a civics lesson had been required, the O Tribe would of managed to get pictures put on the ballot.

You know a choice between a grumpy looking old man and the Pepsi logo.